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UNITED STATES PATENT EEICE JOHN BAUMGARTNER, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

IMPROVEMENT 4IN MACHMINES FOR MAKING NODLES.

Sg unification forming part of Letters Patent No. 146,304, dated January 13, 1874; application filed November 3, 1873.

`known as German noodles 7 the practice has been to make a ilour paste, which is rolled out in thin sheets, and then, with a knife, to cut them into long and narrow strings or shreds, which might be used to thicken meat soups or beboiled and served up with a sauce, as a dish or entre.'

To prepare or cut the noodles is a laborious process, requiring a good dea-l of time to make enough for a dish. The object of the present invention is to furnish a machine, adapted for use in families and hotels, with which the paste can be rapidly rolled into sheets of any desiredy thickness and cut into noodles of any width; and it consists in the peculiar construction of 'the machine, as more fully hereinafter set forth.

Figure lis a perspective view of the machine, looking1 at the front side and right-hand end.

Fig. 2 is an elevation of the left-hand end, showing the nexible paste-plate introduced between the lower rolls for rolling the paste. Fig. 3 is a cross-section, with the plate reversed and introduced between the upper rolls for cutting the noodles.

In the drawing, A represents a base-plate, upon which are erected two standards or end plates, B B, connected at the top by girts O C. D is a wooden or a sheet-metal-covered roll, journaled through fixed bearings in the lower part of the standards, having a pinion, a, keyed on itslefthand projecting end. E is a similar roll, its journals passing through vertical slots in the standards, having bearings in thelower ends of the external metallic links F. On its left hand end is secured a pinion, b, which meshes with the pinion a of the lower roll,when lowered to engage with it. On the right-hand end of the journal, a crank, G, is secured. The upper ends of the links F are eccentrically pivoted to the ends of a rockshaft, I, by wrists c, said shaft being journaledthrough thenpper part of the standards and provided with alever, J, which may be secured at any point of the arc K by a set-screw, d. By throwing the lever J toward the rear, the roll E may belowered toward the roll D, causing the pinions a b to mesh, when,'if the former be rotated by the crank, the latter will revolve with it. By bringing the lever toward the front of the arc, the roll E will be raised and its pinion drawn out of mesh with the pinion a. ff are flourtronghs, pivoted at their ends to the standards, their lower edges being kept in contact with the front and rear sides of the roll E by means of the leafsprings c e, secured to the standards. L is a roll, journaled in fixed bearings above the roll E and armed with a series of circular or disk cutters, g, at regular intervals, projecting through and below slots made in a trough-like sheet-metal guard, h, whose ends are secured to the framestandards. The

roll E may be raised to revolve in contact with the cutters g. M is a plate of strawboard, faced on 011e side with sheet-tin Im. N N are two supporting-rollers, pivoted by arms O to the standards at the front and rear sides. Each arm O is provided with ahook, k, to engage with a staple, t', on the standard, to support the roller N in the plane of the top of the roller D, or with another staple, i', higher up, to support it in the plane of the bottom edges of the cutters of the roll L.

The operation of the machine is as follows: The cook places the paste on the metal side of the plate M, which has previously been floured to prevent adhesion. The supporting-rollers `are arranged as shown in Fig. 2. Some ilour has also been placed in each Hour-troughf, to coat the surface of the roll E and prevent the paste from adheringthereto. The plate M is then introduced between the rolls D and E,

which are then set in motion bythe crank, to

roll the plate and paste back and forth, reducing the latter to the required thickness by throw ing back the lever J. When rolled to the required thickness, the paste is placed on the 5 other side of the plate M. The supportingrollers are raised to the plane shown in Fig. 3, the plate introduced under the knives, while the roller E is raised high enough to compel the knives to cut through the paste to the strawboard, which is then run through, cutting the paste into strings of uniform width. If it be desired to split these strings into others of half the width, a washernz, on each supportingroller is shifted to the opposite end thereof, to

aot as a gage for the Iplate M. The thickness l of these gages being one-half the space between any two of the cutters, it follows that, on runningthrough the plate again, the paste strings will be split through the middle of their Width.

In makin soup-thickening noodles, after the paste is split in one direction, it may be run through in a diagonal direction, cutting the noodles into regular and symmetrical -lozenges of uniform size.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

In a machine for making noodles, the oomhination of the roll D, having the pinion a, the vertically-adjustable roll E having the pinion b, the roll L having cutters, the lever J, and the plate M, all constructed, arranged, and operating substantially as described, for the purpose set forth.

. JOHN BAUMGARTNER.

" Witnesses H. F. EBERTS, H. S. SPRAGUE. 

